Don’t think that the new mommy-Morissette is a bad thing. Morissette’s change from the angry chick who sang “You Oughta Know” to the mother who sings “Guardian” displays a more feminist attitude than ever. Morissette’s transition into motherhood has only furthered her inner feminist.

“I think (in) the song ‘Guardian,’ the chorus is just singing my great passion for protecting, period,” Morissette says in a teleconference Tuesday. “So that mama bear fierce thing definitely has come out in that chorus and in general. I also just care more. … There’s my marriage that has opened my heart a lot, and then being a mom has definitely cracked open my heart.”

These cracks aren’t the bad kind either.

“It’s opened an appropriate maternal tendency,” Morissette says. “Instead of trying to rescue or dysfunctionally caretake ex-boyfriends, I feel like now this maternal, biological imperative is being channeled into an appropriate little human being.”

Motherhood isn’t the only thing fueling Morissette’s change of tone.

“There really is, for me anyway, no better time to be alive as a woman than in 2012,” Morissette says. “We became empowered, but in an individualistic, autonomous kind of way. Neither style, neither approach afforded any kind of connection or intimacy. And now we’re slowly segueing into this gorgeous era where we’re empowered but we also have the knowledge that interdependence can afford this connection within and connection with other people.”

Morissette always has had a feminist edge, and her new album really lends to supporting the “divine feminine” in everyone, be it females or males.

The singer also commented on her spiritual growth throughout the latest album.

“I think that a big turning point for my spiritual growth was after ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ when I had reached and grabbed the brass ring and swallowed it. Frankly, there was no other direction for me to go in that egoic sense, because I had broken all kinds of records,” she says. “I won all the awards that I was ‘supposed’ to win or ‘supposed’ to strive for in the American dream, so then there was no other direction for me to go but within and to ask even deeper inquiry fueled existential spiritual questions.”

Morissette says she doesn’t want to “overwhelm” audience members or herself so she toned down some of the content on her latest album. She says her live shows are still very spiritual experiences for her.

“I just feel like I’m up there praying the whole time,” Morissette says.

Although Morissette has won plenty of awards, she still defines her success in three psychological definitions. The ego’s definition is “sexy” and “seductive.” The superego’s definition is living her purpose and serving others.

For her third definition, she quotes John Lennon, saying, “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”

“I just look up and I notice what’s actually happening and then that becomes me being aligned,” Morissette says. “For a long time, I just thought if I’m out of alignment … somehow, everything’s wrong. But now I just noted that wherever I am is the track, and this is what’s happening. And if there’s anything I’m looking at these days, it’s to define what enough is … so defining what enough is has become a way of defining what success means now for me, too.”